Teknonymy (from Greek: τέκνον, "child" and Greek: ὄνομα, "name"),[1] is the practice of referring to parents by the names of their children.[2] This practice can be found in many different cultures around the world. The term was coined by anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor in an 1889 paper.[3] Such names are called teknonyms, teknonymics, or paedonymics.[4]
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On the Notion of Teknonymy In the field of anthropology, the custom of calling the parent after the child is known as teknonymy, a term coined from the Greek word teknon "child" and the anglicized form of onoma as onymy "name".